different between jas vs jasm

English

Etymology 1

From an Afrikaans slang word for “horny”.

Adjective

jas (comparative jaser, superlative jasest)

1. (South Africa, vulgar, slang) Horny (desiring sexual activity).

Etymology 2

Noun

jas

1. plural of ja

Anagrams

• JSA, saj, sáj

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch jas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jas (plural jasse, diminutive jassie)

1. coat

Descendants

• ? Southern Ndebele: ijasi
• ? Swazi: lijazi
• ? Xhosa: idyasi
• ? Zulu: ijazi

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jas/

Noun

jas m

1. brightness

Related terms

• jasný

Further reading

• jas in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• jas in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?s/
• Hyphenation: jas
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

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Noun

jas m (plural jassen, diminutive jasje n)

1. A coat (outer garment).
2. (dialectal, Volendam) Someone who hasn't been born and raised in Volendam.

Derived terms

• badjas
• beverjas
• bontjas
• kamerjas
• labjas
• labojas
• laboratoriumjas
• ochtendjas
• onderjas
• overjas
• regenjas
• rokjas
• winterjas
• zomerjas

Descendants

• Afrikaans: jas
  • ? Southern Ndebele: ijasi
  • ? Swazi: lijazi
  • ? Xhosa: idyasi
  • ? Zulu: ijazi

Etymology 2

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Noun

jas m (plural jassen, diminutive jasje n)

1. (card games, archaic) A jack or knave, especially as a trump card.

   Synonyms: troefboer, troefzot

Alternative forms

• Jas (obsolete)

Derived terms

• klaverjassen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

jas

1. first-person singular present indicative of jassen
2. imperative of jassen

French

Etymology

From Occitan jatz, from Vulgar Latin *jacium, from jac?re, jace?. Compare gésir (“to lie, to be buried”) and gîte (“lodging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/

Noun

jas m (plural jas)

1. (Provence) sheepfold

   Synonym: bergerie

Further reading

• “jas” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• jas (construction) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch jas.

Noun

jas (first-person possessive jasku, second-person possessive jasmu, third-person possessive jasnya)

1. coat
2. jacket

Derived terms

• jas hujan

K'iche'

Pronoun

jas

1. what
2. which

References

• Allen J. Christenson, K?iche-English dictionary

Lithuanian

Pronoun

jas f pl

1. (third-person plural) accusative form of jos.

Swedish

Noun

jas

1. indefinite genitive singular of ja

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English judge.

Noun

jas

1. judge

English

Etymology

Apparently a variant of jism.

Noun

jasm (uncountable)

1. (archaic, US, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive.

   • Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.

2. (archaic) Jazz.

Quotations

• 1863, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, page 350, Charles Scribner's Sons

  “Yes, sir.  No mistake about that.  Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”

  Frank Sargent laughed again.  “You've got the start of me,” said he.  “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”

  “Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek.  “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”

• 2004 June 30, Elizabeth Cooper, Drusilla with a Million, page 197, Kessinger Publishing

  I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic when you’ve once been your own master. It’ll put jasm into a lot of men that have lost their nerve and only need some one to set them straight.

References

• 1951, Mathews’ Dictionary of Americanisms
• 1997, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Random House

Anagrams

• JAMs, jams